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Klaus Zuberbühler

Researcher at University of St Andrews

Publications -  312
Citations -  15418

Klaus Zuberbühler is an academic researcher from University of St Andrews. The author has contributed to research in topics: Alarm signal & Animal ecology. The author has an hindex of 62, co-authored 272 publications receiving 13177 citations. Previous affiliations of Klaus Zuberbühler include Andrews University & University of Neuchâtel.

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Generation times in wild chimpanzees and gorillas suggest earlier divergence times in great ape and human evolution

TL;DR: The human–chimpanzee split is dated to at least 7–8 million years and the population split between Neanderthals and modern humans to 400,000–800,000 y ago, which suggests that molecular divergence dates may not be in conflict with the attribution of 6- to 7-million-y-old fossils to the human lineage and 400,,000-Y-old bones to the Neanderthal lineage.
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Environmental variability supports chimpanzee behavioural diversity.

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TL;DR: It is shown that chimpanzees exhibit greater behavioural diversity in environments with more variability — in both recent and historical timescales, suggesting that environmental variability was a critical evolutionary force promoting the behavioural, as well as cultural diversification of great apes.
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Language evolution: semantic combinations in primate calls.

TL;DR: It is shown that free-ranging putty-nosed monkeys combine two vocalizations into different call sequences that are linked to specific external events, such as the presence of a predator and the imminent movement of the group.
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Diana monkey long-distance calls : messages for conspecifics and predators

TL;DR: It is concluded that, in addition to their function in perception advertisement, diana monkey long-distance calls function as within-group semantic signals that denote different types of predators.